Housing and Urban Development and Census Bureau Expand Access to Detailed Information on Nation’s Housing
Nearly 20 percent of recent movers identified “convenience to job” as the most important factor in their choice of neighborhood in 2011, according to the American Housing Survey, the definitive source of information on the quality of housing in the United States. For the first time ever, the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development have made survey results available on the Census Bureau’s American FactFinder data access tool. Read the full release here.
O*NET Greening References Updated
The Greening of the World of Work: O*NET Project’s Book of References update adds additional green references to those compiled from an initial research report on the green economy. Ongoing green activities, such as data collection on occupational and worker requirements for green occupations, and continuous green economy research, contributed to this winter’s update. Download this document here.
Census Bureau to Complete Regional Office Realignment
The U.S Census Bureau’s 18-month agenda to realign its field offices across the nation for the first time in 50 years will be completed by January 2013. The restructuring, announced on June 29, 2011, closes regional offices in Boston, Charlotte, Dallas, Detroit, Kansas City and Seattle. Read the full release here.
Notable Data Publications
Each week, the APDU Data Update identifies recent statistical data releases of interest to APDU members.
APDU maintains a list of open calls for comment on proposed federal data collections. We periodically alert APDU members to newly added calls for comment. Over the last several weeks, calls for comment on the following proposed data collections were published in the Federal Register (with due date):
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Medical Expenditure Panel Survey–Insurance Component (February 22, 2013)
Bureau of Economic Analysis
Annual Survey of Foreign Direct Investment in the United States (January 21, 2013)
Census Bureau
The American Community Survey 2014 Content Change (February 25, 2013)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The National HIV Surveillance System (January 25, 2013)
Institute of Education Sciences
School Attendance Boundary Survey 2013 and 2015 (February 19, 2013)
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